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enJoining professional associations empowers educatorshttp://www.districtadministration.com/article/joining-professional-associations-empowers-educators
<div class="field field-name-field-dek field-type-text-long field-label-hidden" data-quickedit-field-id="node/17775/field_dek/und/rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">K12 organizations offer benefits and resources for educators and districts.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden clearfix" data-quickedit-field-id="node/17775/field_author/und/rss">
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<a href="http://www.districtadministration.com/node/988">Odvard Egil Dyrli</a> </div>
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<div class="field field-name-field-magazine-issue field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden" data-quickedit-field-id="node/17775/field_magazine_issue/und/rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/issue/district-administration-september-2013">District Administration, September 2013</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" data-quickedit-field-id="node/17775/body/und/rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The superintendent of the K12 school district where I first taught held a drive each September to encourage teachers to join state and national education associations beyond our local union. We knew that participation, at least in the NEA—which functioned as a professional association in some states and a labor union in others—was not really optional, especially because our enrollment level at 100 percent was announced each year as a matter of pride.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:38:23 +0000Lauren Williams17775 at http://www.districtadministration.comDA At Large: New year and new directionshttp://www.districtadministration.com/article/da-large-new-year-and-new-directions
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<a href="http://www.districtadministration.com/node/988">Odvard Egil Dyrli</a> </div>
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<div class="field field-name-field-magazine-issue field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden" data-quickedit-field-id="node/17197/field_magazine_issue/und/rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/issue/district-administration-august-2013">District Administration, August 2013</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" data-quickedit-field-id="node/17197/body/und/rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>After serving as editor-in-chief and then executive editor of District Administration, and writing and editing for our sister education publication University Business more than a decade ago, it is an enormous privilege to step into a new role as columnist for both magazines and editor at large (my wife says it is more accurate to say editor at “extra-large”).</p></div></div></div>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:18:40 +0000Matthew Zalaznick17197 at http://www.districtadministration.com